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In Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles, hydrogen is stored as compressed gas in tanks made from carbon fiber composite. Tanks are designed to withstand 2.25 times the nominal working pressure. If low variability in tank strength can be demonstrated, this margin of safety could be reduced. This requires accurate prediction of the strength of the vessel and quantification of its uncertainty. In this work, several composite pressure vessels are ...

Background Esophageal cancer (EC) is a malignancy with a poor prognosis and a five-year survival rate of less than 20%. It is the ninth most frequent cancer globally and the sixth leading cause of cancer-related deaths. The incidence of EC has been found to vary significantly by geography, indicating the importance of environmental and lifestyle factors along with genetic factors in the onset of the disease. In this work, we investigated ...

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) constitutes a substantial public health burden with ∼20 million human infections annually, including 3.3 million symptomatic cases. Appropriate treatment options for, in particular, HEV-infected immunocompromised patients and pregnant women are lacking, underscoring the urgent need for potent and safe antiviral drugs. METHODS: HEV subgenomic replicon systems were used to screen a small library of ...

In case of nuclear accidents, radiocaesium (134Cs and 137Cs) can be released into the environment, contaminating agricultural soils and entering the food chain via plant uptake. This is because Cs exhibits similar biochemical behavior to the plant nutrient potassium (K). Radiocaesium is strongly adsorbed onto the weathered edges of micaceous clay minerals, such as illite, and this limits its transfer to the food chain. The soil-to-plant transfer ...